Woods for custom guitar with C-Pig/Painkiller

[Stranger]

I'm going to have a custom guitar built with C-Pig in the bridge and Painkiller in the neck.  I'm currently thinking mahogany body with maple topwood, and a five-piece maple/mahogany neck, but I'm open to other suggestions.  It's a guitar built for extreme metal, so I want some deep punch and bass.

[Stranger]

I'm down to mahogany or alder body.  I should be happy with maple/mahogany neck and maple topwood.  Opinions?  This guitar should be played with either an Engl Savage/Fireball or Diezel Herbert, though I'm not 100% decided.

[FernandoDuarte]

I'd think in mahogany + wenge neck laminations ^^

[nfe]

Wouldn't it make more sense to start with the body woods and then look at which pickups you want to fit a particular sound?  :?

[Stranger]

Wouldn't it make more sense to start with the body woods and then look at which pickups you want to fit a particular sound?  :?

BK C-Pig is commonly accepted as the best pickup for my style of music, and I've really got BKP GAS, haha.  If I already had a particular guitar and was thinking about installing a BKP, then I would have to first consider the wood, but since this is going to be a custom I can get any wood I need that best resonates with the pickups I've chosen.  Mahogany and alder are both common woods chosen for metal geared guitars, and while I prefer mahogany's tone, someone has told me that the C-Pig has a better sound with alder.  Both woods are acceptable to me, I'm just looking for opinions and difference in tones with various woods with the C-Pig.

Does anybody backup this claim that C-Pigs sound better with alder bodies than mahogany?

[Madsakre]

Im an ash man

[Roobubba]

Bubinga wings on a 5-piece maple-bubina-wenge-bubinga-maple neck-through with wenge top and ebony fretboard.

Next.

[ratspeak]

Maple neck-thru, mahogany wings. Got C-pig for my ESP horizon of that construction. Sounds awesome in a demo I heard of it used with the same guitar.

[MDV]

Bubinga wings on a 5-piece maple-bubina-wenge-bubinga-maple neck-through with wenge top and ebony fretboard.

Next.

Ok

5pc blot on Mahogany/maple/walnut/mahogany neck with ebony board on a swamp ash body

And

5 pc through neck Dark red meranti/maple/walnut/maple/DRM with indian rosewood board, maple/DRM/maple laminate wings and a cocobolo top.

[Nolly]

The woods you selected in the OP should be great. The ceramic Warpig is nowhere near as dark as it's alnico counterpart, so I doubt you will have issues with that.

[Roobubba]

Bubinga wings on a 5-piece maple-bubina-wenge-bubinga-maple neck-through with wenge top and ebony fretboard.

Next.

Ok

5pc blot on Mahogany/maple/walnut/mahogany neck with ebony board on a swamp ash body

And

5 pc through neck Dark red meranti/maple/walnut/maple/DRM with indian rosewood board, maple/DRM/maple laminate wings and a cocobolo top.

Yup, that's also got to sound awesome!

[MDV]

Indeed!

[FernandoDuarte]

I'd totally change the maple for Wenge... even Padouk...

[MDV]

Hes good with the maple. Maple/mahogany laminate is great for metal; depth and punch and definition and clarity, plus rigidity, so vibration transmission and stability. Its a winner.